HBO has run into a wall of anger from local residents as it tries to film an upcoming miniseries about the December 2004 tsunami.

Some survivors seem most concerned about reports of ads in local papers asking for extras to play “corpses.” The miniseries, a co-production between HBO and the BBC, is currently filming in Thailand, hard hit in the tsunami that killed nearly 220,000 people.

HBO and the BBC have gone to lengths to say the miniseries, starring Toni Collette and Tim Roth, will go “beyond” the tragedy to focus on its aftermath – but some locals think it’s too soon.

“Why are they doing this? We can’t believe it,” a local resident told a local newspaper. “It’s too early … What about the people who lost their families?” “Some of the flyers had pictures of the tsunami,” said Robert Reynolds, the director of a local charity.

“On the bottom, it said ‘victims needed.’ It was pretty tasteless.”